Social Psych Flashcards
Groupthink
when people within a group feel it is more important to maintain the group’s cohesiveness than to consider the facts realistically
Conformity (Asch)
changing one’s own behavior to more closely match the actions of others.
Compliance
occurs when person changes behavior due to another person or group asking
Social loafing
When people do not work hard in group work settings. Easy to ‘hide’ in group, people believe others will ‘catch’ them
Deindividuation
Group members might feel anonymous and experience less personal responsibility
Group polarization
Presence of others increases extreme positions
Milgram’s study
The teacher learner shocking study where nobody stopped shocking the learner because of obedience
Compliance techniques
Foot in the door: Small request followed by larger request
Door in the face: Large request that someone says no to followed by smaller, reasonable request
Lowball: Person makes commitment, cost of commitment is then increased
Normative conformity
To fit in or get approval from a group
Informational conformity
Formal rules
You think the group is right/knows something you don’t
Obedience
Changing due to authority figure
Milgram
Teacher administered shocks to learner, told to continue when they didn’t want to, obeyed bc of authority figure telling them to
Zimbardo
Stanford Prison experiment
Cognitive dissonance
When thoughts don’t match with actions or attitudes
How people deal with cognitive dissonance
Either change thoughts, behavior, or form entirely new thoughts
Attitude
A tendency to respond positively or negatively to certain ideas, people, object, or situations
Learned
ABC model of attitude
Affect: How people feel about it
Behavior: How people act
Cognitive component: person’s thoughts about it
Attitude formation
Direct contact, direct instruction, vicarious learning (observational
Peripheral route processing
Info processing that relies on content outside message
Central route processing
Ppl attend to content of message
Persuasion components
Source, message, target audience, medium
Social categorization
when people meet a new person they assign them to category or group
implicit personality theories
sets of assumptions people have about how different types of people, traits, and actions are related.
helps forms schemas
Attribution
the need people have to explain the behavior of others and themselves
Types of cause of behavior
External sources: Situational cause
Internal sources: dispositional cause
Fundamental attribution error
When people overestimate internal and underestimate external on others’ behavior
Actor observer bias
We use situational instead of dispositional on our own behavior
realistic conflict theory
Prejudice tied to increasing conflicts between groups when after same resource
Social identity theory
identification of social identity and social comparison to others/groups
Stereotype vulnerability
When knowledge of others’ stereotypes of you can affect behavior
Equal status contact
All in same situation with no power over each other
Worked in that camp of boys
Rules of attraction
Physical attraction, proximity, similarity, reciprocity of liking
Triangular theory of love (Sternberg)
3 components and the types of love they can produce
3 components of love
Intimacy: feelings of close emotional ties
Passion: Physical and emotional arousal
Commitment: Decisions one makes about relationships
Prosocial behavior
Social behavior that benefits others
Altruism
Helping someone without expectation of reward
Bystander effect
Likelihood of bystander helping decreasing as number of bystanders increases. Bystanders will go along with others’ behaviors
Diffusion of responsibility
When person fails to take responsibility because of presence of others who seem to share it
Mere exposure effect
Being attracted to someone because of proximity
